Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Lectionary
Belgium, 1500-1550
MS M.5 fol. 87v

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Christ: Ascension -- Virgin Mary, veiled, with joined hands raised, and Peter, tonsured, with arms extended, both nimbed and kneeling, are flanked by nimbed apostles kneeling around mound. Above mound, Christ, only his feet shown, ascends.
In lower left margin are flowers and butterfly.